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In that case I usually head for Engineering, and save GPs for golden ages. If you can get Guilds, workshops are a 5 hammer tile in GA. You can build 2-3 units per city during the GA running Caste, then switch into slavery at turn 8, and whip the last few. If you have 6 cities that's a pretty...

In actual single player, Emperor difficulty games I have gotten the easiest victories with creative leaders, esp. Gilgamesh. Though Shaka and Darius are up there too. Not so much with India surprisingly.

If I build markets, its almost exclusively for the happiness (and grocers for health). An extra pop. in a bureau capital can pay big dividends. If you want wealth multipliers, build a bank.

Is that water 2S 1E of settler? If so, food has to be 1N 2E of settler. Warrior should reveal it.

Looks like a plan to me. I'd settle the red square first, grow to size 2 then just spit workers and settlers from it.

I'm not just trying to confuse things here but... if your crunch is getting all the tech in time then don't you want a couple early cottages up? BW-TW-Pott then everything else?

I guess I'm of the opinion that no amount of seafood is moving me off that starting spot. I'd bring the warrior back through the capital and see if you can't steal a worker from some close by neighbor.

Would it be possible to relax the rules a little and allow good faith submissions? I gotta be honest my feeble brain can't get BUFFY to work

Yeah I have to go Monty. Sac Altar is a game breaker.

Ooh very nice start. 2 excellent foods and lots of forest to chop Praets.

I play Emperor, on that level Vulture is probably the best rush unit IMO, yes better than WCs, at least in the slow plodding war style that I tend to play. Toss in better UB and better starting techs and its a landslide. Traits don't really matter if you've won the game by 500 AD although...

Move the Warrior 1 SW and same with settler. Then move warrior on the PH. If reveal nothing, settle in original spot. if there's any kind of food though then I'm settling on that PH instead of the coast. Don't want to get cornered early.

I think its a great idea. I'd suggest that to best compare leaders, go with a flat difficulty. Maybe people can weigh in before hand who they are going to pick so as we get close to an even 33/33/33 or 50/50 distribution, then at the end sum up the average finish dates for each leader to...

Absolute Zero gave this a try on Deity and it pretty much flopped. I've not had much success with it on Emperor either, maybe I'm doing it wrong. What I found is Nationalism plus gunpowder in time to draft against medieval units is a pretty tall order. Even then, I think the UU is a little...

Well now I regret moaning about repetitive starting locations on the NC. This start is definitely too, uh, unique, for me.